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I'm wondering about searching for URIs in the ImageDescription EXIF field: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/EXIF.html

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The one-shot image meme has become a currency of the social web. It's useless for news. What would it look like to add context to the file?

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Striking how much more human I feel after 10 hours of sleep. I should do this more often.

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AVClub discusses the best fake news show ever, which incredibly only ran for 6 episodes: http://www.avclub.com/article/day-today-let-air-out-tv-news-212120

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Having to bite my tongue at a lot of what I'm seeing on social media tonight. The rioting is not the story. Giant, sweeping inequality that makes people feel unheard and afraid for their lives most definitely is.

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The new BART link to Oakland Airport is very pretty and surprisingly expensive.

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@MarkMorvant It works really well. The cool thing is, anyone else can write a webhook integration for it, too.

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My entry in the 1000 Zombies Project. I may have also been responsible for the next two. http://onethousandzombies.blogspot.com/2014/11/zombie-6-ben.html

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This week Known has gained syndication to: multiple Twitter accounts, other Known sites, webhooks including @SlackHQ. It's Tuesday.

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This post is being seamlessly syndicated from Known to Twitter, to LinkedIn - and to our internal Slack channel.

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Here's another quick test of webhook syndication.

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If all goes well, this status update should make its way into our Slack channel.

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Here's a depressing image. One-bedroom rents in the SF Bay Area (I'm apparently getting a great deal): http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/sf-map.jpg

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The community hangs out on IRC 24/7. I'm beginning to wish there was a similar channel for connected course / instructors.

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@mattb "Would you like to drive this giant tank of a car that uses twice as much gas? It's an upgrade!"

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And that's what happens when you don't delete your test posts quickly enough.

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Test

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If you don't like protests and activism, you don't like democracy.

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Internet Explorer, you crazy bastard.

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The problem with "scratch your own itch" is that developers are people of privilege; solving our own problems means we fail to serve others.

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There is no justice without social justice. What a sad, scary night.

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White supremacists showing up on social media, because of course they are. Without hyperbole some of the worst people on earth.

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The only way justice can work is if the people who enforce the law are held to the same standards as the rest of us.

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Where can I read the best legal analysis of why Darren Wilson wasn't indicted?

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